I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
ROBERTO BOLANOPoetry and prison have always been neighbors.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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One should read Borges more.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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